Like - so we should do something about it, right? This thing that would dramatically improve our lives that is really obvious to everyone. Shouldn't we do it?
Turns out, nope. It's always been like that.
First time I went was a couple weeks ago. I noticed that they didn’t play with any out of bounds - whoever kicked it out, got to keep going with the ball. Made no sense.
I asked the organizer of the group about it. His reply? “We’ve been doing it like this for 10 years. That’s just how it is.”
I asked him if he personally enjoyed playing like that (him being the organizer for literally the last decade...)
He slowly turned and looked at me with a blank stare, as if he had never thought of it like that before. “No I don’t,” he said.
He still refused to do anything about it.
Not at all: you can be painfully aware that 90% or even 99% of your peers are not that good and yet you are still light years away from being in the top 0.0001%. It's the same type of awareness.
Compare it with income only for the sake of having a numerical benchmark. With a salary of 32k$/year you are in the world top 1% yet you might feel you should be earning 100x that.
Anyway, in this case, he believes that 98 people in the office are no good. 1 is amazingly good. He is both better than the 98 but much much worse than the 1. To my mind that is not impostor syndrome.
Perhaps I don't really understand the term.
In the case you describe, you are divided between a suspicion that everyone else is an idiot (and you are wise) or that everybody is equally aware, but you've all learned to live the lie.